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EU antitrust chief growls at Google, hopes to avoid sanctions

Brussels' competition chief Joaquin Almunia has sniffed at any
suggestion that the European Commission would follow the US consumer
watchdog by allowing Google to avoid a tough settlement over its alleged "abuse of dominance" in the online search market.

Speaking with the Financial Times,
the commissioner said that the stateside Federal Trade Commission's
decision would have no bearing on the EC's separate probe of Google's
business practices. For his part, Almunia has said it is his
"conviction" that the multi-billion dollar corporation is "diverting
traffic" to its own services.